President-Elect Joe Biden has tapped Kristen Clarke, 45, current president and executive director of the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers Committee) to...
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post for the week of January 6 thru 12, 2021
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post for the week of December 30, 2020 - January 5, 2021
Adolfo Gutierrez Quinones aka “Shabba-Doo” was born May 11, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois and died suddenly on December 30, 2020. The cause of death is unknown....
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was appointed California’s first Surgeon General in January 2019 by Governor Gain Newsom. Harris was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "There's a bunch of research about the value add of Black teachers in school. It turns out that Black teachers help all students...
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post for the week of December 23 - 29, 2020
Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Alex Padilla, 47, California’s secretary of state since 2015, to fill the Senate seat of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, when she resigns....
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post for the week of December 16 - 22, 2020
In the wake of confirmed in-store positive COVID-19 cases at Oakland and Berkeley locations, low wage Peet’s Coffee workers and ex-workers say they want the company...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "Fifty years of making a seat at the table and building a pipeline for those to come, and 50 years as the 'Conscience...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Though largely viewed as a formality, the many challenges and the outrageous – almost treasonous – behavior displayed by Trump, his supporters, and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The person who is going to take the first vaccine in the state of New York, maybe the first vaccine shot in the...
Black America lost two of its iconic figures this month. Both born in 1934, Rafer Lewis Johnson died of a stroke on December 2 in Los...
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post for the week of December 9-15, 2020
South Futon County, Wolf Library Sitting Room for Elders There is a poll worker at each of the 3 voting booths at this location. There was...
U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-South Carolina), the Majority Whip of the U.S. House of Representatives and highest-ranking African American in Congress, said California Gov. Gavin Newsom...
Free Four-Part Series December 8th, 9th,15th,16th, made possible in part by the City of Oakland CARES Act Funds Oakland, CA — Starting this week, on Tuesday,...
The Oakland Unified School District recently grabbed headlines when progressives won three out of four open seats on the school board, for the first time in...
I was first introduced to GirlTrek when founders Vanessa Garrison and T. Morgan Dixon hosted a live conversation with poet Nikki Giovanni and civil rights activist...
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post for the week of December 2-8, 2020
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post for the week of November 25 - December 1, 2020
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post for the week of November 18 - 24, 2020
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post for the week of November 11 - 17, 2020
Treva Reid, District 7, and Carroll Fife, District 3, are the two new City Councilmembers elected in November pledging to use the power and resources of...